UP STRAW
Design & Build public procurement procedure
The Design & Build procedure is reassuring for the Project Owner because it provides an impression of safety regarding the (...)
A MOOC on straw construction
A Massive Open Online Course is an online learning programme, also known as a MOOC. The UP STRAW partners have written a (...)
Monks build the largest straw bale building in southern Germany with their own wood and straw.
Interview with Brother Andreas Schmidt, OSB, project manager and representative of the builder "Benedictine Abbey Plankstette (...)
National straw networks
There is a strong network of straw bale construction - nationally and internationally. In many European countries constructio (...)
The largest renovation with Dutch straw
Interview with Wouter Klijn, Strobouw Nederland What was the reason for renovating a sports hall with straw? In 2016, Strob (...)
Straw now integrated into BIM
12 walls representative of the main current practices in straw construction were modelled in BIM. The walls were described (...)
Hastings Visitor Centre built with straw
The 'Bale House' is the new Visitor Centre in Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve, funded by Hastings Borough Council with (...)
The biggest library dedicated to straw construction
The partners of the UP STRAW project have created a library of more than 400 publications dedicated to building with straw (...)
Launch of a MOOC about building with straw : Building for change - Naturally
Six weeks of free training: time to build sustainably! MOOC Building for change - Naturally: training in straw construction (...)
When materials match pedagogy and values : Educational institution Emmanuel d’Alzon
Interview with Sébastien Girardeau (Dauphins architecture). Having looked at your work and achievements since 2007, I noted (...)
Life Cycle Assessment and straw construction
Life Cycle Assessment, or LCA, is an environmental accounting and management approach that considers all the aspects of resou (...)
Renovation of a sports hall with blow-in-straw technique
The municipality of Tilburg was very pleased to be invited by the National Straw Building Association of the Netherlands (...)
School inner climate
What is comfort? The notion of comfort is a concept with a variable parameter that requires us to specify the context. (...)
[Interview] Green Woodpeckers peck on straw
The carpentry company Grünspechte e.G. has 44 employees and is committed to ecology, healthier building and sustainability (...)
Prefabricated straw panels in UK Schools
Prefabricated straw bale construction systems use a natural, low carbon, renewable product, providing high levels of thermal (...)